1. Web query:

   • Click on Search or Net search at the top of the browser.

   • Enter the query word(s) in the line shown for this purpose -- in this assignment: software publishers. Press enter or submit.

   • read and follow the links to find some familiar software publishers, such as Microsoft, Lotus, etc.

   • You will need to e-mail me 4 to 5 of these addresses.

   • I suggest that you minimize the browser, open and minimize Notepad or equivalent, restore the browser and start copying the URLs you found.

     (Highlight the references with the mouse. Hold the mouse pressing the left button and pass it over the text you want to copy and it will be highlighted -- shown with a white background, and select edit copy.)

   • Then restore Notepad and paste the reference(s).

   • Repeat these steps until you have a list of references (with the company names type besides them) in Notepad.

2. E-mail references:

   • Do not exit the browser, nor Notepad, just minimize them.

   • Open your e-mail software, like you did in the prior assignment.

     610a2.
     (I receive about 50 messages a day and have around 90 students this semester -- be sure to use the subject 610A2 for me to know that this is INSS610 assignment 2, and file it accordingly).

   • Type a first line saying something like "This is my assignment on software publishers." Minimize temporarily your e-mail application or equivalent.

   • You have two ways to copy the references to your e-mail:
     1. using the mouse copy the reference list in Notepad. Minimize Notepad again and click on the your e-mail application minimized icon. Go the second line of the body of your message, left-click to select the location and select edit paste, to paste the references you highlighted. Voila -- the references are ready to be sent!.

     2. attaching the references: save the list of references in Notepad to a file. Click on attachment in your e-mail application or equivalent and type the file name in the attachment line. This method works better if you are using a Windows e-mail system. In UBmail it requires that you upload the file to UBmail first, then attach.

        NOTE: Given the present "fatware" disease that plagues the word processing world, DO NOT attach word processing files -- they are too big. Instead save them as text and attach the text version.

   • Sign and send me the assignment! By sign I mean: write your name go the next line and type your e-mail address. This is the standard signature to use on the Net. See below.

     Al Bento
     abento@ubmail.ubalt.edu

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